Drop, Dropping

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ISBE 191512 verse references

ISBE 1915

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915). Where it reports or adopts critical theories, those are the views of its writers or the scholars they cite; Gospel Companion holds the historic Christian view of Scripture.

"To drop" expresses a "distilling" or "dripping" of a fluid (Jud 5:4; Pr 3:20; So 5:5,13; Joe 3:18; Am 9:13; compare 1Sa 14:26, "the honey dropped" (margin "a stream of honey")); Job 29:22 and Isa 45:8 read "distil" (the King James Version "drop"). The continuous "droppings" of rain through a leaking roof (roofs were usually made of clay in Palestine, and always liable to cracks and leakage) on a "very rainy day" is compared to a contentious wife (Pr 19:13; 27:15); "What is described is the irritating, unceasing, sound of the fall, drop after drop, of water through the chinks in the roof" (Plumptre, in the place cited); compare also the King James Version Ec 10:18 (the Revised Version (British and American) "leaketh").

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain

In Scripture

Judges 5:4 Proverbs 3:20 Song of Solomon 5:5 Song of Solomon 5:13 Joel 3:18 Amos 9:13 1 Samuel 14:26 Job 29:22 Isaiah 45:8 Proverbs 19:13 Proverbs 27:15 Ecclesiastes 10:18

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